In 2026, historian Wang Zhen died unexpectedly and transmigrated to Ili, Xinjiang, in 1856, possessing the body of the only son of a Qing guerrilla general.
He was supposed to receive the “Imperial Contest System,” but a system error left him with only three compensations: a pocket dimension spanning one hundred thousand square meters, eyes that could discern loyalty and wickedness, and a pill that could add five hundred years to his lifespan.
At the time, the Qing dynasty was in decline, Russia was pushing south, and the khanates of Central Asia were locked in endless warfare. Wang Zhen began by persuading his father to secure him a military post, then advanced step by step, quietly building his strength with the pocket dimension as his foundation.
He gathered refugees and welcomed people from the Central Plains, exchanging silver with the Qing dynasty for people, and established his own state around Nur-Sultan: Xiting.
From a training ground in a small frontier town to a trade hub spanning Europe and Asia, he spent five hundred years transforming a nomadic tribal alliance into a modern superpower.
This is a long journey of survival, ambition, and civilization, from the grasslands of Ili at dawn to Xiting standing atop the world five hundred years later.
